Anybody know what the torque specs are that hold the flexplate to the motor? The little 14mil allen dudes. Had this posted in a the ask the techs section but that forum dosnt seem to get much traffic. Sorry for the repost.

TIA:)

Man am I getting tired of driving this old 1 ton gasser. I miss my baby:(

USE NEW BOLTS!

Then, initially torque the bolts to 58 ft/lbs
Next pass, 60 degrees
then, 60 degrees again..

Apparently, there is a holder for the flywheel (remove starter, holder goes in place of said starter)

Good luck rat!

Confirm final torque is 266lb-ft. Use tool J44643 to hold flywheel.

THANK YOU!!!!!!

Made my own holder, got the flywheel/flexplate on. Murphy kicked me in the kiwis again while I was under my truck trying to get it on the road.:mad: truck still not on the road:( thanks again guys

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Phil, no starter sol avail here anytime soon

Thats alright.......truck is still sitting due to other problems that JB weld wont fix. Starter seems to be taken care of at least temporarily.

Okay rat, now what happened???

duno....chuncks of steel in the pan cant be good though. autopsy is comming soon

how much do you save doing it yourself?):h

Let us know what happened...Will see if I can help round up some hard parts, sounds like your gonna need some:eek:

kit installed by Eric 3500$ while I eat pizza and watch him get dirty

stage 3 kit 2500$ or so while I get dirty and almost sqush a friend with my trans and later lay on my back in a pool of atf and kitty litter +200$ in shipping the chowed converter back to SC and a new one shipped up+the price to get my converter fixed+a new flexplate at 125$, 100$ in fluid, who knows what kinda parts in the trans? its not so much the cost savings Eric, its the knowledge that I know it was done right:rolleyes:

I suppose we shall see shortly what I did or didnt do? one woulda thought if I screwed up the install it woulda blew up before 10k miles. I guess maybe I am lucky since I never woulda known about the trans untill I pulled the pan(on the long list of to do's) if it wasnt for the converter. fluid always looked fine, magnet never had anything more than a bit of grey fuzz on it, fliter never had any trash in it.

Thankfully with guys on the board here I am only slightly screwed as apposed to a seriously fCensoreded duck.

:confused: What happened............

It does not look too good thus far...........:(

Good Luck...........Hope it is not too serious Phil.........

Keep us posted.

T:( NY

Rat, I remember you telling us about your experience of installing the SCIII, and you had some extra parts or something. Do I remember correctly? I am just curious.

Might have mad a comment about extra parts as a joke.....then again since I have chunks in my pan maybe I did have a few left overs:eek:. You dont really think I would have put my trans back into my truck with a pile of parts left on the work bench do you? Actually dont answer that;) ):h

Might have mad a comment about extra parts as a joke.....then again since I have chunks in my pan maybe I did have a few left overs:eek:. You dont really think I would have put my trans back into my truck with a pile of parts left on the work bench do you? Actually dont answer that;) ):hWell, rat, it has been proven that in racing, lighter is faster ):h
Keep us posted in what you find in there...Too bad eric didn't find this problem when he was doing your injectors......OR wait a minute..maybe he did??!! a little sabotage, perhaps??? ):h

Just making sure rat, you never know around here.

if it wasnt for my ratteling exhaust he/we/I would done some investigating into the converter.......Eric wouldnt stoop to sabatage.....he knows I can tear up enough stuff on my own accord):h ;) :rolleyes: :(

if it wasnt for my ratteling exhaust he/we/I would done some investigating into the converter.......Eric wouldnt stoop to sabatage.....he knows I can tear up enough stuff on my own accord):h ;) :rolleyes: :(I was just razzing ya phil.:o ...I know he wouldn't pull something like that....Hope whatever it is doesn't cost you big $$$$ to fix.....

LabRAT, keep us informed. BTW, you and Eric can go ahead and install an O2 bottle while it is being repaired.):h :ro)

Way to kick a man when he's down.:rolleyes: I know you were just busting my balls, its all good:)

Hopefully I didnt wipe out a bunch of stuff. :confused:

Phil, just having fun at your expense, no hard feeling....LOL

I think it was some of that magic elixer I poured in ...... Mike L told me that "this stuff is the bomb" or was it "this stuff causes a bomb"? I dunno I guess......

Keep us posted...spare parts litter my area....

Well rat at least there hasn't been that holier than thou person stating that infamous saying "You play, you pay."

I know you didnt mean anything by it Eric:)

I'm actually keeping pretty positive. And even though chunks of metal arnt a good thing the fluid looked fine and wasnt sparkly and the magnet didnt have much trash on it.....well other than the the chunks of ferous metal:eek: Hopefully I caught it before really bad stuff hapened.....or I have been driving around for 10k with schrapnel in my pan:eek:

At any rate Daryl, Al, Mike, Mark, and many others here are keeping me from jumping off the nearest bridge. You guys rock:ro)

I've gotten enough of the "you shouldnt have messed with a perfectly good trans, you shoulda stayed stock, bla bla bla" -:t At least nobody here will hand me that line. I can handle razzing but stock sucks:D

I can give one peice of advice that is guaranteed to pay off for you guys. Buy stock in Budwieser, I owe a ton of people a ton of beers):h <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

Take some pics of the pieces and we can have a game of identify.....

Take some pics of the pieces and we can have a game of identify.....
Oh man,

Phil...........that is gonna leave a mark..................:(

T):h NY

Phil, not to beat ya up or nothing, but could it just have been a case of simply forgetting to torque down the converter bolts that caused it? :( I know sometimes in a big project its the little things that get missed, I've done it myself many times. You have my hopes that it's not an overly expensive fix.


By the way, Tony, if it leaves a mark, it'll be a skidmark AFTER he gets it fixed!!!!!

Tom http://dieselplace.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=107

TheBac

Whose underwear is that? ):h

when the the tc bolts came loose and started flying around, is it possiable that it knocked things apart in the converter?? and it just started to funnel into the pan? he did say that there were a couple of dings on the converter!

You can find just about anything on the Internet nowadays. This one's for Tony and Mike.....and I figure Phil needs a laugh...):h

Well the preliminary report sounds like Phil will be driving a Ford for a while longer.

To bad I didn't have my camera along last night to get some pics of Phil in his "new" ride. It looked like a real sleeper. JK Phil

converter parts would have a hard time getting down to the pan.. oil passages are pretty small.

You can find just about anything on the Internet nowadays. This one's for Tony and Mike.....and I figure Phil needs a laugh...):h
Thats exactly what my shorts looked like when Diesel Tech gave me a ride at 210mph on a city street in a twin turbo Ferrari that he built. :ro) The 90mph right hand turn was also interesting.:eek: We made the turn.:D I burned the shorts.):h
mike

Hey Mike, thought you'd appreciate that pic! ):h

Twin Turbo Ferrari?!?

210 MPH?!?

OHMIGAWD! :ro)

Tom http://dieselplace.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=107

Thats exactly what my shorts looked like when Diesel Tech gave me a ride at 210mph on a city street in a twin turbo Ferrari that he built. :ro) The 90mph right hand turn was also interesting.:eek: We made the turn.:D I burned the shorts.):h
mike
Snowman can outrun that in his toyota corolla.